Active addresses jumped 72% in two weeks while open interest fell to its lowest level since July 2025, giving traders a cleaner setup even as price remains trapped below resistance.
Bitcoin held below $60,000 as a surging dollar kept crypto pinned. Onchain demand stayed quiet through the week’s losses, and Strategy’s plan to possibly sell bitcoin added to the caution.
Executives at major platforms CoinDCX and CoinSwitch say the premium reflects a demand-supply imbalance and thin local liquidity.
BTC fell in Asia as the Japanese yen tanked to four-decade lows, lifting the dollar higher across the board.
The tokenization firm is expected to begin trading on the NYSE on Thursday, becoming one of the first publicly traded pure-play tokenization companies.
The bank said bitcoin lending has emerged from the 2022 crypto credit collapse with stronger risk controls, growing institutional participation and a path toward lower borrowing costs.
The bank says Congress should pair regulatory clarity with safeguards as Senate negotiates the Clarity Act.
The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said.
Officials from the White House are said to be sitting down with law enforcement representatives who have objected to illicit-finance portions of the bill.
The bank added five Asia-Pacific currencies to its Kinexys blockchain platform, allowing institutional clients to settle payments and FX around the clock.
The blockchain analysis company published a proposed ontology for how investigators can identify clusters of crypto addresses and link them together.
As MiCA takes full effect on July 1, SwissBorg’s Alex Fazel told CoinDesk users should choose platforms built to withstand EU regulators’ tightening oversight.
The broker said operational consolidation is blurring the lines between exchanges, brokerages and sportsbooks, creating conditions for acquisitions across the prediction market ecosystem.
Bitmine made its smallest purchase since early May as Lee pointed to investors cutting losses before the start of the second half of the year.
The bank said institutional demand for perpetual futures remains muted, with the products better suited to speculative trading than hedging.
Strategy adopted a new capital management framework, authorizing up to $2 billion in buybacks while creating a program that allows future bitcoin sales to support liquidity.
Raids on crypto payment firms in Bengaluru disrupted the pipeline that feeds dollar-pegged USDT to Indian platforms, pushing its local price more than 8.5% above the dollar, roughly double the usual gap.
Your day-ahead look for June 29, 2026
The institutional banking provider is expanding into digital asset custody, liquidity and execution services as former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin takes the helm.
BTC added 0.6% to $59,800 to start the week while SOL rose 2%, though derivatives data and chart formations point to continued downside risk.
European regulator ESMA called on unauthorized crypto-asset service providers to wind down their businesses in an orderly manner as the MiCA transitional period ends on July 1.
Bitcoin is trading below key technical and onchain valuation levels, with historical bear market patterns suggesting a potential bottom closer to $45,000.
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting June 29.
BIS’s latest annual report dives into stablecoins and AI trends.
The firm’s global general counsel, Peter Wilkinson, has taken over as CEO from Stephan Lutz.
Samsung and SK Hynix are pulling a chip-plant buildout forward by a decade to meet AI memory demand. It is the latest and largest sign of the AI capital cycle that has drawn money away from crypto all year.
U.S. equity futures rose after reports the U.S. and Iran agreed to halt strikes and resume talks. Bitcoin has barely moved, still down 6.8% on the week.
Investors have pulled out $4 billion from the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs in June, the highest outflow on record.
The Binance founder shared his views on a variety of topics in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk earlier this month.
The bitcoin advocate said his crypto bottom claim is based on the fact that the traditional four-year halving cycle has changed, although several analysts continue to expect further downside.